Improvement in stair-rods



UNITEDv STATES PATENT OEEICE.

H. UHRY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN STAI R-R/ODS'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 88,993, dated April 13, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, H. UHRY, of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stair-Rods; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the end of one of my improved stair-rods as it appears when in place. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the same through the line Y Y. Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing one ofthe modifications of the fastening. Fig. 4 represents the rod of Fig. 1 in transverse section through the line :v and Fig. 5 is a similar view of the rod having the fastening represented in Fig. 3.

This invention relates to the class of stairrods which is made of metal, and in shape has more or less the conformation of a tube or pipe, either round, polygonal, oval, or otherwise; and the improvement consists in the combination and arrangement, with such rod, of the parts composing the fastening therefor, whereby a neat, simple, and substantial result is obtained.

A is a hollow metallic rod or tube of any sectional shape, as may best suit the taste or fancy, and having near both ends proper slotted holes to allow of the head ofthe fasteninghook or screw-eye V to enter therein.

M is a wooden plug driven in the tube A, as shown in Fig. 2, and having at or near its center a hole, m.

B is an end piece secured by screwing or otherwise to the end of the rod A, and acting as a cap thereto'. The cap end piece, B, has a hole at or near its center corresponding to the hole m of the piece M.

P is a detached pin having an ornamented head, F.

V is a screw-eye screwed fast into the staircases W at the proper place for fastening the rod A thereto.

In Fig. 3 the rod A requires no wooden plug or lling M, nor end cap-piece, B. The head F of the pin p is made of proper size and shape to fit inthe end of the rod A, and the pin p, being cast or fastened to the head F, 011 one side of it, orin an eccentric manner thereto, will act against the inside of the rod A, much as a bolt for securing the rod A to the screw-eye V. (See Figs. `3 and 5.)

To put my improved rod in place the screweyes V are rst screwed in their proper place, and the rod A being pushed over them, so as to cause the two eyes to enter the slotted holes in the rod A, the pins p are introduced by both ends and pushed home, entering both the rod and the eyes V, and effectually fastening the rod A thereto.

I claim- The combination of the rod Awith the screw V and the pin P, placed eccentrically to the plug or end piece, F', as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

H. UHRY. A[L s] 

